The weekly Q & A column " The Straight Dope " deduces, based on pornographic Greek art work and Dover's aforementioned study, that in ancient Greece an uncircumcised and small penis was culturally seen as desirable in a man, whereas a bigger or circumcised penis was viewed as comical or grotesque, usually being found on " fertility gods, half-animal critters such as satyrs, ugly old men, and barbarians ."